Good Morning Italy, the new editorial project of the New York Network, will be presented on Thursday 14 May in New York, with an event at the Italian American Museum, at 151 Mulberry Street, in the heart of Little Italy. It is the first paper issue of the magazine and entitled “Success. The Italian Way”: we will present it from 18 to 19.30, with a meeting open to the public and followed by a reception from Ferrara Bakery & Café, a few steps from the museum.
Good Morning Italy was born to tell Italy to an international audience: Italians abroad, Italians, people who love Italy and readers who want to understand it a little better, beyond the easiest images with which it is often told. It is not a magazine designed only to talk about cooking, tourism, beauty or nostalgia, although all these things are naturally part of the Italian imagination. The idea is to start with people, their works, their stories and different ways in which the Italian identity changes when moving out of Italy.
The first issue is dedicated to success, but not in the most general and motivational sense of the word. “Success. The Italian Way” puts together stories of cinema, sports, fashion, business, music, culture and Italian-American communities to try to understand what it means to succeed Italians, or Italian Americans, in very different contexts.
Within the number, contributions and interviews to Armand Assante, Robert Davi, Kathrine Narducci, Riccardo Silva, Gianluca Passi, Francesco Facchinetti, Christopher Macchio, Bilena Settepani, Christian Di Sanzo and Premium Pete. The cover is dedicated to Fabrizio Brienza, actor, model and famous figure of the New York nightlife, told as an Italian who built his own image in New York without completely adapting to American codes.
The presentation will be held at the Italian American Museum also for this. The museum is located in Little Italy, in one of the most connected areas of Italian immigration in New York, and tells an important part of the Italian presence in the United States: that of the families arrived between the late nineteenth and twentieth century, of the neighborhoods, associations, workshops, churches and an identity that has changed a lot over time. Presenting a magazine on Italy today and on Italians in the world means to put together the history of Italians who have sought a place in America and that of those who today move between Italy and the United States starting from very different conditions.
During the evening will take part Marta Mammana, Deputy Consul General of Italy in New York; Fabrizio Brienza, protagonist of the cover story; and Premium Pete, podcaster and figure very well known in the urban culture of New York. It will be a way to tell the project, present the first issue and explain the type of look with which Good Morning Italy wants to work: an attempt to tell Italy through stories also very different from each other.
After the meeting at the museum there is a reception from Ferrara Bakery & Café, at 195 Grand Street. Ferrara is one of the historical signs of Little Italy, founded in 1892, and is part of that commercial landscape that for many New Yorkers continues to represent the Italianity of the neighborhood. Good Morning Italy starts a bit from here, and tries to answer a question: what remains of Italian identity when changing language, city, work and generation, and how can you tell it without always reducing it to the same symbols?
To participate in the presentation you can register for the event through this link.
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